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Lend your money and lose your friend. (To Give One's Enemy a Wife and Lose One's Soldiers As Well)
In alliance with Sun Quan, Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao at the Red Cliff, and subsequently occupied Jingzhou.
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Wai Qiang Zhong Gan (Outwardly Strong but Inwardly Weak)
The Earl of Qin was attacking the Marquisate of Jin… After defeating it in three battles, he reached the place called Han.
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Daji and Bo Yi Kao
Di Xin obliged King Wen of Zhou to stay in You (that is, today’s Henan) for almost seven years, during which King Wen of Zhou’s eldest son, Bo Yi Kao, came to the capital of Shang, Zhaoge...
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Lu Ji: He Concealed Oranges To Present To His Mother
In the later Han dynasty there lived a certain Lu Ji(陆绩), also called Gongji. When he was six, he went to Jiujiang (九江, in Jiangxi province), where he met General Yuan Shu. Shu brought...
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In the Spring and Autumn Period the ruler of the State of Jin gave an order...
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In 202 B.C. Xiang Yu and his army were besieged by the Han army at Gaixia.
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When Chen Sheng was young, he worked on the land as a hired hand.
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In 202 B.C. the army of Han, led by Liu Bang, had been at war for years with...
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One day, Tang Bohu was traveling in Gusu (present Suzhou) when he encountered...
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Fei Degong was a notorious bandit and lady-killer in Huai'an (present...
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